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Anastasia Kubrak

Anastasia Kubrak is a designer and researcher, working at the intersection of media and material cultures. She is currently a PhD candidate at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, and tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven in MA Social Design and MA Information Design. Between 2018 and 2021, she has been a researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch Institute for Architecture, Design and Digital culture, where she co-curated the exhibition Lithium (2020) and co-edited the publication Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021). She holds a Master’s in Visual Strategies from Sandberg Instituut, and her writing has been published by ARCH+, Valiz and The Institute of Network Cultures among other platforms.

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Lithium Baths and Electric Bulbs

28 March—31 May 2026
Opening on 28 March, 17:00
Bagno Popolare, Baden (CH)

A speculative archaeology of lithium water. The exhibition links historical lithium spas with the industrial use of the element in batteries, reflecting the intersection of health, energy, and economics – from electrotherapy to the energy transition.

IXDM Research at EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam
All That Remains

Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 18:00–20:00

Join us for a conversation on concepts of space, land use, materiality, and culture that often inscribe and reiterate colonial techniques through the extractivist infrastructures that they mobilize.

Energy – Extraction, Exhaustion, Depression

Wednesday, 2 November 2022

Colloquium session hosted by Anastasia Kubrak & Johannes Bruder, with guest Cara New Daggett.